£1 doesn’t cover a morning coffee in the café next to my office, but across the world around one billion people live on just £1 a day for all their living costs. The Global Poverty Project has been working hard for the last four years to challenge this unacceptable state of affairs…
As a Mathematician with a lifelong passion for numbers I have always liked statistics. I am wary of them, of course. ‘There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” may be an overused quotation, but it does contain a grain of truth. In the wrong hands, ‘facts’ are not always what they…
The biggest moment of the week for me in the Lords this week was the Schools White Paper statement. On these occasions it falls on the Lords minister to read out verbatim the words of the Commons minister. So the likeable Lord Hill read out the words of Michael Gove. They didn’t sound right coming…
